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   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, August 25, 2008 at 5:48:47 PM UTC-7, LMC Society wrote:   
   > I saw Cacaoyannis's Trojan Women, and I mostly agree with John Simon's   
   > critical review of it.   
   > Anyway, the scenes in the ruined castle in Ran may have taken some   
   > pointers from this mooie.   
   > Also, notice how Ran begins? Hidetora is hunting an old boar, so in a   
   > way, it's like he's hunting himself.   
   > Now, consider the opening of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. James   
   > Coburn shoots chickens, and that is intercut with young men shooting   
   > Pat Garrett. So, shooting chickens is like Garrett shooting himself.   
   > Both Pat Garrett and Ran are about old men who think they can hang up   
   > the past and retire safely. To be sure, Garrett loses his faith/trust   
   > in youth and kills Billy--only to be killed by other young(er) ones.   
   > Hidetora, on the other hand, trusts the young ones to respect his old   
   > ass but his arse is shot full of arrows.   
      
   https://collider.com/akira-kurosawa-movie-ran/   
      
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